The origins of money in the Iron Age Mediterranean world
Color versions of select print images available on the Resources tab (or here: www.cambridge.org/heymans). This book shows how money emerged and spread in the eastern Mediterranean, centuries before the invention of coinage. While the invention of coinage in Ancient Lydia around 630 BCE is widely re...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Heymans, Elon, The origins of money in the Iron Age Mediterranean world] (2024) (Reden, Sitta von, 1962 -)
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| Further subjects: | B
Money
B Mediterranean area B Coin B Mediterranean B Iron age B Iron Age (Mediterranean Region) B Money History To 1500 (Mediterranean Region) B Thesis B Geldgeschichte |
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| Summary: | Color versions of select print images available on the Resources tab (or here: www.cambridge.org/heymans). This book shows how money emerged and spread in the eastern Mediterranean, centuries before the invention of coinage. While the invention of coinage in Ancient Lydia around 630 BCE is widely regarded as one of the defining innovations of the ancient world, money itself was never invented. It gained critical weight in the Iron Age (ca. 1200 - 600 BCE) as a social and economic tool, most dominantly in the form of precious metal bullion. This book is the first study to comprehensively engage with the early history of money in the Iron Age Mediterranean, tracing its development in the Levant and the Aegean. Building on a detailed study of precious metal hoards, Elon D. Heymans deploys a wide range of sources, both textual and material, to rethink money's role and origins in the history of the eastern Mediterranean. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Sep 2021) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 333 pages), digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 978-1-108-97532-2 978-1-108-83858-0 978-1-108-97165-2 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781108975322 |
